CARCHARIAS BORNEENSIS AND BARBUS ELONGATUS, AS PREOCCUPIED NAMES

Heavy Metal Accumulation and the Genotoxicity in Barbel (Barbus barbus) as Indicators of the Danube River Pollution

The aim of this study was to analyze 16 trace elements (Al, As, B, Ba, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Li, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sr, and Zn) in different barbel (Barbus barbus) tissues and to detect the presence of genotoxic effects in erythrocytes with the alkaline comet assay. Barbel specimens were collected in the Danube river near Belgrade, Serbia, where the discharge of untreated communal and industrial was...

Names as Tokens

After presenting a variety of arguments in support of the idea that ordinary names are indexical, I respond to John Perry’s recent arguments against the indexicality of names. I conclude by indicating some connections between the theory of names defended here and Wittgenstein’s observations on naming, and suggest that the latter may have been misconstrued in the literature.

A Case of Snake-Bite (Lachesis Borneensis)

History.?On the night of February 29th at 9 p.m., Muthiah, aged 22, Tamil, whilst running along a pathway through rubber trees put his foot on a snake, which bit him. He immediately kicked it away, whilst his friends who were behind him kil]ed it. Within a few minutes, he felt a burning sensation which appeared to travel up the leg. A string was tied around the ankle and he was taken to hospita...

Biometry of the fishes Barbus plebejus and Barbus capito from Coruh Basin, Turkey.

Metric and meristic characters are important to identify fish species and their habitat peculiarities. There are many species that belong to the fish genus Barbus, which is found in tropical and extratropical regions, but there are few studies covering the Coruh basin. Two subspecies of Barbus were found in the Coruh River system of Eastern Anatolia, Turkey: Barbus plebejus escherichi and Barbu...

Phylogeography of the barbel (Barbus barbus, Linnaeus 1758) in the area of Lake Constance